Tony QUINONES, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. CITY OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee

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• seeking to enjoin enforcement of the age limitation in 40 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/4-107 so the plaintiff could access the pension plan established by that article of the code
• “A discriminatory state law is not a defense to liability under federal law; it is a source of liability under federal law.”
• city’s adherence to state law that conflicts with federal civil rights law provides no defense to liability under the federal law
• “A person aggrieved by the application of a legal rule does not sue the rule maker—Congress, the President, the United States, a state, a state’s legislature, the judge who announced the principle of common law. He sues the person whose acts hurt him.”

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